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The absence of disease is not health.
Shawn Achor
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Shawn Achor
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 9
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Psychologist
Waco
Texas
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Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.
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When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go.
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Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.
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..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.
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If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.
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Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
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You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.
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Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.
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Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
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The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
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The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
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Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
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Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.
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By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.
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